apache-commons-beanutils

Is there a version of BeanUtils.describe(customer) that recursively calls the describe() method on the complex attributes of 'customer'. class Customer { String id; Address address; } Here, I would like the describe method to retrieve the contents of the address attribute as well. Currently, all I have can see the name of the class as follows: {id=123, address=com.test.entities.Address@2a340e} Funny, I would like the describe method to retrieve the contents of nested attributes as well, I don't understand why it doesn't. I went ahead and rolled my own, though. Here it is, you can just call:

I am trying to copy properties from one bean to another. Here are the signature of two beans: SearchContent : public class SearchContent implements Serializable { private static final long serialVersionUID = -4500094586165758427L; private Integer id; private String docName; private String docType; private String docTitle; private String docAuthor; private String securityGroup; private String docAccount; private Integer revLabel; private String profile; private LabelValueBean<String> workflowStage; private Date createDate; private Date inDate; private String originalName; private String format;

Is there a handy-dandy equivalent to org.apache.commons.beanutils.PropertyUtils on Android? I can't seem to use bean utils in my android app due to some dependencies on PropertyDescriptor ,and IndexedPropertyDescriptor . So I'm wondering if there are any alternatives? Basically all I want to do is use a method name as a string "someMethod" and feed that into setMethod(anObject, "someMethod", value) , much like PropertyUtils does; but without having to resort to the nasties of reflection... Or are my hands tied and I need to use Reflection? There is a possibilty to use libraries or write own

I have a Java bean which has a field which in turn is another bean public class BeanOne { private String fieldOne; private BeanTwo fieldTwo; public String getFieldOne() {return this.fieldOne;} public void setFieldOne(String fieldOne){this.fieldOne = fieldOne} public BeanTwo getFieldTwo() {return this.fieldTwo;} public void setFieldTwo(BeanTwo fieldTwo){this.fieldTwo = fieldTwo} } public class BeanTwo { private String fieldOne; public String getFieldOne() {return this.fieldOne;} public void setFieldOne(String fieldOne){this.fieldOne = fieldOne} } I am trying to pass a map to BeanUtils to try